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[Ehndras]

Donghaiwei will forever be the bane of my Dwilight seriousness...

Anyone who is a Lord or Knight of Dong-Highway is undeserving of respect. ;-)

[vonGenf]

Donghaiwei will forever be the bane of my Dwilight seriousness...

Anyone who is a Lord or Knight of Dong-Highway is undeserving of respect. ;-)

I never even thought of it that way, I always assumed it rhymes with wifi.... can anyone with a working knowledge of Mandarin confirm?

BTW: Dong Hai = Eastern sea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Sea_(Chinese_mythology)

[Ehndras]

Wei is pronounced more like weh than way, though it still has that rise...

http://mandarin.about.com/od/dailymandarin/a/yinwei.htm

Dong is pronounced with a blunted 'o' more akin to a 'u' sound, the 'g' pronounced very subtly if at all. Hai is pronounced like you'd expect it to be, like the word 'high'.

http://mandarin.about.com/od/dailymandarin/a/lihai.htm

[fodder]

see...Weihaiwei (or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihai)
...definitely not highway.

[Ehndras]

What, we're still on that joke? :-) To someone who can't read or pronounce Mandarin it might looks lik Dong Highway. I was actually unaware the name had anything to do with Mandarin when my friends and I noted Donghaiwei's name and subsequently laughed. Strangely enough I've seen haiwei used to jokingly replace highway online before, though I seriously doubt it has anything to do with Chinese and more to do with memetastic spelling :-P There's no linguistic accuracy in that claim, haha, just a bit of comedic license :-P

[fodder]

yeah well.. wrong country.  that one is in la or some such.

[Perth]

Donghaiwei will forever be the bane of my Dwilight seriousness...

Anyone who is a Lord or Knight of Dong-Highway is undeserving of respect. ;-)

You should harass the Lords/Knights of that region IC. That would be gold.

[Uzamaki]

You should harass the Lords/Knights of that region IC. That would be gold.

Yeah. You should. Personally. It isn't like Terran is fighting a war or anything.  :P

[Ehndras]

Oh yes, let me just take a 50+ hour boat-ride to Donghaiwei's nearest port, trudge through unknown lands, request to see the King/Queen/Commander/Whatever, then spit in their face and call them a Daimon-worshipping goat-shagging pansy, piss on their throne and subsequently plant a Terran banner atop their keep, yelling that Terran hereby claims these lands in the name of our glorious Lord Vellos, and try to make it out alive. :-P

Makes me wish I had another noble slot so I could play a bat!@#$-crazy character, not counting my death-worshiper in the Far East.

[Glaumring the Fox]

I used to live in Taiwan on a small mountain called 'Donghai' .

[Foundation]

East Ocean?

[fodder]

more sea than ocean.

[Glaumring the Fox]

Hai is ocean or sea. Yeah the place was called 'eastern ocean' since it was a hill facing the Taiwan strait.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Oh yes, let me just take a 50+ hour boat-ride to Donghaiwei's nearest port, trudge through unknown lands, request to see the King/Queen/Commander/Whatever, then spit in their face and call them a Daimon-worshipping goat-shagging pansy, piss on their throne and subsequently plant a Terran banner atop their keep, yelling that Terran hereby claims these lands in the name of our glorious Lord Vellos, and try to make it out alive. :-P

Makes me wish I had another noble slot so I could play a bat!@#$-crazy character, not counting my death-worshiper in the Far East.

I'm already here, and can teleport out once I do so. If you wish me to call them that.

[Gustav Kuriga]

Although I don't find it funny to make fun of other languages.